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BREAKING: Soldier of Conscience Granted Clemency, Released.Last August, Travis Bishop refused to serve in Afghanistan. Having filed for Conscientious Objector (CO) status, Bishop, based at Fort Hood, Texas, in the US Army’s 57th Expeditionary Signal Battalion, was court-martialed and sentenced to 12 months in a military brig. He was released from the brig Thursday.
With participatory democracy citizens are involved in decision making
directly. Citizens don’t need to worry about political campaigns, they
can think long-term. If most of the citizens share the vision of a
sustainable city, and if they have a direct influence on budget
spending, than realizing this vision becomes possible. And, what’s
also important, all projects are not imposed on people by the mayor,
but they are agreed upon by the majority of the population.
When a recent flight from Miami touched down at Havana's Jose Marti Airport, a passenger shouted "Viva Cuba!" in a show of the enthusiasm Cuban Americans have for returning to their homeland.
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Coulter campus speech canceled in Canada
Coulter expressed her outrage, calling the University of Ottawa a "bush league" institution in an interview for The Washington Times. The Vancouver Sun has ...
Dogs die every year in Alaska's grueling Iditarod race. It's time to relegate the Iditarod to the history books.
With 2.4 Million Jobs Lost to China, New Trade Battle Begins - A new report released by the Economic Policy Institute (EPI) underscores how between 2001 and 2008, 2.4 million US jobs were eliminated or displaced due largely to the flooding of the U.S. market with Chinese goods priced artificially low due to apparent Chinese government currency manipulation. "We have allowed the Chinese government to game the system for far too long, with serious consequences for the US economy," says the EPI report's author, economist Robert Scott. That's no longer much in doubt, but it's still not clear how far the administration will be willing to go to push China. Congressional action may force the administration's hand, at least in labeling China a currency manipulator next month, which could ultimately pave the way for tariffs on Chinese goods.
| Dubai unveils $9.5bn debt restructuring |
The government, which said the plan would take several months to implement through talks with creditors, will fund the new business plan with the $5.7bn left over from the $10bn bail-out loans from Abu Dhabi last year, and the remainder from internal government resources.
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We will have to resist the temptation to fold in on ourselves and to ignore the cruelty outside our door.
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U.S. Convicted high-ranking officials include a circuit court judge, county clerk and school superintendent
Each face up to 20 years in broad conspiracy that included manipulation of electronic voting machines...
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The bloody-minded, death-obsessed state of Texas, which has already demonstrably executed at least one innocent man, Cameron Todd Willingham (who was falsely accused and ultimately killed by the state for the alleged arson "murder" of his two little children when in fact they’d died because of a fire caused by an electrical fault), may be about to execute yet another innocent man. This time it’s Hank Skinner, 47, a man who has spent 16 years on the state’s busy death row protesting his innocence in the 1993 New Year’s Eve murder of his girlfriend, Twila Busby, and her two sons, aged 20 and 22... Legislation to Establish Internment Camps on US Military Bases
Damning ambulance report that could put Michael Jackson's doctor behind bars
Mogadishu's mayor orders some 1,000 Somali refugees to move away from the city's airport, citing security concerns.
By Border Jumpers
1,500 Words About Uganda
By Jerome Starkey
Jerome Starkey recently reported for The Times of London about a night raid on Feb. 12 in which U.S. and Afghan gunmen opened fire on two pregnant women, a teenage girl and two local officials -- an atrocity which NATO’s Afghanistan headquarters then tried to cover up. Now, in a blistering indictment of both NATO and his own profession, Starkey writes for Nieman Watchdog that the international forces led by U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal are rarely called to account because most reporters are too dependent on access, security and the 'embed culture' to venture out and see what's happening for themselves...
By Nicolas Hermes
1st in a 3-part series
Courtesy Nanotechnology Project
The Nanotech Gamble: Bold Science, Big Money, Growing Risks.
As the revolutionary technology touches more and more lives, safety experts warn the U.S. has one chance to get it right.
My comment: In other words, stay put and work until you drop if you're fortunate enough to have a job. If not, stay put and stay poor.
We have a country that needs us to step to the plate, swing that pick, and plant the future -- now!
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